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The TRACtion Texas weekly newsletter is published on Tues. evenings by CDX, Inc. — Connecting the music industry with Texas Red Dirt radio. For more information call 615-292-0123 or email President Joe Kelly- joe@cdxnashville.com

Casey Donahew Keeps The Top Spot!

Vol 4. #32 Aug 14th, 2019

Dear Readers;CASEY DONAHEW keeps the #1 position this week with "Let's Make A Love Song." PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS' "Dreamer" wins double honors this week, being the Most Added and Greatest Spin Gainer. COMANCHE MOON's "Goin' To The Country" is the Highest Debut at position #39! Great work everyone!The following stations have been frozen for this week. KPAK-FM (Alva, OK) KTXM-FM (Hallettsville, TX) KWOX-FM (Woodward, OK) KYKM-FM (Yoakum, TX) The following stations have been FROZEN for 2 consecutive weeks. KKGQ-FM (Wichita, KS) The following songs have been moved to RECURRENT status. BARRENS, THE / Something Real BEN MARSHAL / Good Man's Name BETH NOBLE / My Darlin' GOLDEN ROSES, THE / Bad Habit HOLLY TUCKER / Country Music Won't Let Me JAMES GARLAND / It's Alright JAMES LANN / Memory Like You KEVIN DEAL / If You Can't Put It Down KYLIE FREY / Ain't Enough Beer MARIO FLORES / That Man RANDALL KING / Takin' Me A Heartbreak SCOTTY ALEXANDER / My First Beer STETSON WALKER / That's When the Party Starts

TRACtion TX thanks the following artists who used CDX to distribute their latest releases to Texas Red Dirt radio and the industry. We really appreciate your support! MICHAEL BALLEW / I Love Texas WELDON HENSON / Texas Made CHRIS COLSTON / Bonnie & Clyde

For those who don’t use CDX to distribute their new music but wish to be monitored by TRACtion TX, you can now go to our upload center, fill out the necessary information and send your MP3s for fingerprinting here: https://www.cdxcd.com/fingerprinting-upload-center/.

Casey Donahew"Let's Make A Love Song"

Almost Country Records

CONTENTS—

Charts

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Monitored Panel ListPAGE 5

Chart BreakoutsPAGE 5

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Stay tuned,Joe Kelly

CDX President joe@cdxnashville.com

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Artist / Song Title / Label

Spins +- Stations AddsWks On Chart

1 1 CASEY DONAHEW/Let's Make A Love Song/Almost Country Records 790 64 40 3 15

3 2 WILLIAM CLARK GREEN/Stay/Bill Grease Records 666 40 38 2 14

2 3 FLATLAND CAVALRY/Old School/Flatland Cavalry Music 653 11 40 1 20

7 4 STONEY LARUE/Hill Country Boogaloo/One Chord Song/Smith Group 584 86 33 2 10

5 5 JAMIE RICHARDS/Privileges Of Youth/Jamie Richards Music 565 25 31 0 14

4 6 JAKE WARD/Put You Down Tomorrow/Jake Ward Music 528 -93 34 1 24

10 7 TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/The Winding Stair Mountain Blues/Thirty Tigers 465 58 31 4 12

8 8 DERYL DODD/I'm So Outta Style/Little Red Truck Music 458 15 28 1 16

9 9 JON WOLFE/Some Ol' Bar In The 90s/Jon Wolfe Music 452 20 27 1 12

11 10 RANDY ROGERS BAND/I'll Never Get Over You/Tommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 451 54 30 3 6

15 11 PROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/Dreamer/Prophets and Outlaws Music 438 101 29 5 19

13 12 JACK INGRAM/Where There's A Willie/Beat Up Ford Records 402 52 29 2 19

16 13 ROBERT RAY/Good Country Song/Big R.I.G. Country, LLC 385 51 22 2 12

18 14 CURTIS GRIMES/Still/Curtis Grimes Music 379 56 27 2 9

17 15 CODY JOHNSON/Nothin' On You/Cojo Music LLC 366 41 25 2 5

20 16 KEVIN FOWLER/Better With Beer/Kevin Fowler Records 338 54 30 2 4

19 17 SHANE SMITH AND THE SAINTS/Heaven Knows/Geronimo West Records 297 12 21 2 11

21 18 RAY JOHNSTON BAND/Beautiful You/Ray Johnston Music 291 9 18 0 21

22 19 WHISKEY MYERS/Rolling Stone/Wiggy Thump/Thirty Tigers 289 24 23 1 7

23 20 JOSH ABBOTT BAND/Little More You/Josh Abbott Band Music 265 38 17 3 2

25 21 SUNDANCE HEAD/Close Enough To Walk/Wildcatter 251 39 20 2 17

26 22 WYNN WILLIAMS/Yeah Buddy/Wynn Williams Music 237 36 22 2 4

14 23 JUNIOR GORDON/Loved 'Em Everyone/Junior Gordon Music 233 -107 28 1 24

28 24 DREW FISH/The Devil You Know/Reel Records 231 39 23 3 9

27 25 FRANK RAY/Just for a Minute/Frank Ray Music 231 32 19 2 14

29 26 HAYES CARLL/If I May Be So Bold/Dualtone Records 190 22 17 3 5

36 27 MARK POWELL/This Bar Needs A Town/Mark Powell Music 178 33 16 3 4

33 28 MARK MCKINNEY/Cinnamon Shore/Mark McKinney Music 175 13 14 1 8

38 29 KOE WETZEL (& THE KONVICTS)/Ragweed/Koe Wetzel Music 168 29 9 1 3

37 30 MASON LIVELY/Early Grave/Mason Lively Music 155 11 13 2 12

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Number 1 = Most Added = Spin Gainer =

Bubbling Under PositionHAYDEN HADDOCK/Everywhere I Need To Be/Hayden Haddock Music 51WILL CARTER/Good Bad Idea/Will Carter Music 52DREW MORELAND/Road Stone/Drew Moreland Music 53CODY BRYAN BAND/Our House For The Weekend/Cody Bryan Band Music 54LAUREN CORZINE/Ain't That Lonely/Lauren Corzine Music 55SAINTS ELEVEN (FT. WALT WILKINS)/Strange Round Here/Saints Eleven Music 56NO JUSTICE/More To Live For/Smith Music Group 57JOSH WEATHERS/Wild Ones/Josh Weathers Music 58CHRIS KNIGHT/I'm William Callahan/Drifter's Church/Thirty Tigers 59MATT MERCADO/I Should've Never Left Mexico/Matt Mercado Music 60

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Wks On Chart

35 31 DONICE MORACE/The Blues Are Alive And Well/Donice Morace Music 152 2 11 1 7

32 32 ABE MAC BAND/Crazy/Abe Mac Music 151 -12 12 1 14

42 33 ZACH COFFEY/Nobody Frames Bad Days/Zach Coffey Music 149 31 11 0 8

39 34 JAMES COOK/Let 'Em Run/James Cook Music 142 4 14 1 18

40 35 DUSTIN SONNIER/Between The Stones & Jones/Dustin Sonnier Music 142 16 14 1 3

41 36 MARTY HEDDIN/A Little Less Lonely/Nightlife Entertainment Group/Dreamlined Entertainment Group 135 16 15 1 9

50 37 JODY BOOTH/Life of My Love/S.O.T. Records 133 37 12 1 2

47 38 GARY KYLE/American Flags/Gary Kyle Music 130 26 13 3 4

-- 39 COMANCHE MOON/Goin' To The Country/CM Music 128 39 8 1 1

44 40 TANYA TUCKER/The Wheels Of Laredo/Fantasy Records/Concord 125 18 16 2 5

45 41 KAITLIN BUTTS/White River/Kaitlin Butts Music 114 8 8 0 8

46 42 MORGAN ASHLEY/Come Find Me/Morgan Ashley Music 112 7 11 1 9

49 43 JARROD MORRIS/Coyote/Jarrod Morris Music 112 13 7 1 2

-- 44 RODNEY CROWELL/Flatland Hillbillies/RC1 Records 109 17 12 3 1

-- 45 DUSTY NEUMAN/Spike Drivin' Blues/Marathon Music Group 106 14 8 0 1

-- 46 CASEY BAKER/Life Has Taken Its Toll On Me/Casey Baker Music 95 6 9 1 1

43 47 POWELL BROTHERS, THE/The Way You Are/Tolar Powell Entertainment 92 -17 10 0 14

48 48 RAGLAND/Footsteps/Ragland Music 91 -11 11 0 12

-- 49 JOSH GRIDER/My First Band/Josh Grider Music 81 -4 7 1 9

-- 50 MATT CALDWELL/Highways and Honkytonks/Matt Caldwell Music 75 -16 8 1 1

“Monitored Radio Airplay”

Chart Recurrent Methodology

When does a song move to recurrent on the chart? It is one of the more challenging issues we encountered in creating the CDX TRACtion Texas chart system. Rather than relying on subjective editorial decisions, we’ve chosen to automate this process using the weekly chart data as a marker.

We strive to avoid having singles past their prime create a logjam on the chart, because that stifles upward momentum for up-and-coming singles. But we also try to ensure that singles “on the bubble” are not removed prematurely. As long-time chart watchers know, singles often take a while to establish a solid base among early believers at radio before they truly find their legs. Due to any number of reasons, the path to peak chart position rarely includes straight-line, week-over-week spin and/or chart position growth.

On a monitored airplay chart like CDX TRACtion Texas, the reality is that new singles bounce around a bit spin-wise and position-wise, particularly in the lower half of the chart. Even small spin increases and decreases can be magnified as fairly significant up-or-down chart position moves.

With this in mind, the CDX TRACtion Texas recurrent policy grades each chart position on a curve, using an algorithm that considers the chart position and spin history for that song. Newly serviced singles are allowed 20 weeks to chart before being removed from chart consideration. Once a status change is actively being considered by the algorithm, the cumulative amount of spin loss from the single’s previous peak spin count is the trigger. The allowable spin loss varies as a percentage, depending on the chart position.

In addition to making sure that only singles with significant downward movement become recurrent, this methodology also benefits slow-developing singles in several ways. For instance, the allowable spin loss (as a percentage) is very generous at the lower reaches of the chart to accommodate the lower spin counts. Additionally, if a single is at risk of being moved to recurrent status with two consecutive weeks of minor spin loss, it can still return to positive spin growth the following week, which will reset the clock.

TRACtion only recognizes detections on songs that have been “fingerprinted.” We do our best to obtain and fingerprint all new releases; songs serviced through CDX are encoded automatically. Go to https://www.cdxcd.com/fingerprinting-upload-center/ for fingerprinting.

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Monitored Stations KAXA-FM Kerrville, TXKBSO-FM Corpus Christi, TXKBST-FM Big Spring, TXKECO-FM Elk City, OKKERP-FM Dodge City, KSKFLP-FM Floydada, TXKFTX-FM Corpus Christi, TXKFWR-FM Ft. Worth, TXKFYN-FM Paris, TXKHLB-FM Mason, TXKHYI-FM Howe, TXKIKK-FM (HD2) Houston, TXKKAJ-FM Ardmore, OKKKCN-FM San Angelo, TXKKGQ-FM Wichita, KSKMOM-FM Aberdeen, SD

KNES-FM Fairfield,TXKOKE-FM Austin, TXKOLI-FM Wichita Falls, TXKORA-FM Bryan, TXKOXE-FM Brownwood, TXKPAK-FM Alva, OKKPUR-FM Canyon, TXKQSC-AM Colorado Springs, COKQZQ-FM Kiowa, KSKRBL-FM Levelland,TXKRRG-FM Laredo, TXKRUN-AM Ballinger, TXKRVF-FM Kerens, TXKRVN-FM Lexington, NEKSAM-FM Huntsville, TXKSEL-FM Portales, NM

KSSL-FM Post, TXKTTU-FM HD4 (K226CH-FX) Lubbock, TXKTTX-FM Brenham, TXKTXM-FM Hallettsville, TXKUSH-AM Cushing, OKKUSQ-FM Worthington, MNKVST-FM Montgomery, TXKWOX-FM Woodward, OKKXKZ-FM Ruston, LAKXOX-FM Sweetwater,TXKYKC-FM Ada, OKKYKM-FM Yoakum, TXKYKX-FM Longview,TXKYYK-FM Palestine, TXcoyotecountryradio.commadeintexasradio.com

texasboundradio.comtexashomegrownradio.comTexasRedHotRadio.comTBJS Radio Poteau, OK

Underlined = Frozen this Week Double Underlined = Frozen 2 WeeksBold = Newly AddedStrikethrough = Removed

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Most Added AddsPROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/DreamerProphets and Outlaws Music 5TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/The Winding Stair Mountain BluesThirty Tigers 4CHRIS KNIGHT/I'm William CallahanDrifter's Church/Thirty Tigers 4CASEY DONAHEW/Let's Make A Love SongAlmost Country Records 3RANDY ROGERS BAND/I'll Never Get Over YouTommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 3JOSH ABBOTT BAND/Little More YouJosh Abbott Band Music 3DREW FISH/The Devil You KnowReel Records 3HAYES CARLL/If I May Be So BoldDualtone Records 3MARK POWELL/This Bar Needs A TownMark Powell Music 3GARY KYLE/American FlagsGary Kyle Music 3

Greatest Spin Gainers IncreasePROPHETS AND OUTLAWS/DreamerProphets and Outlaws Music 101STONEY LARUE/Hill Country BoogalooOne Chord Song/Smith Group 86CASEY DONAHEW/Let's Make A Love SongAlmost Country Records 64TURNPIKE TROUBADOURS/The Winding Stair Mountain BluesThirty Tigers 58CURTIS GRIMES/StillCurtis Grimes Music 56RANDY ROGERS BAND/I'll Never Get Over YouTommy Jackson/Thirty Tigers 54KEVIN FOWLER/Better With BeerKevin Fowler Records 54JACK INGRAM/Where There's A WillieBeat Up Ford Records 52

ROBERT RAY/Good Country SongBig R.I.G. Country, LLC 51

CHRIS KNIGHT/I'm William CallahanDrifter's Church/Thirty Tigers 51

Carly Evans of KQSC in Colorado Springs, Colorado with Randall King and Season Ammons.

Bri Bagwell, Kat Powers (KYYK), Jade Marie Patek, Jody Booth, Steve Helms, Melissa (KYYK), and Bubba T.